Before "genocide" : the evolution of a law to regulate armed conflict -- From "barbarism" to "genocide" : outlawing mass murder -- A crime against all : legal and theoretical approaches to genocide -- Civilizing "idolatrous people" : religion and genocide -- "Pillaged mercilessly" : the birth of the Arab and Turkish empires -- "A gigantic plundering scheme" : the genocide of the Ottoman Armenians -- "Native Christians massacred" : the genocide of the Ottoman and Persian Assyrians -- "A virgin field" : the genocide of the Anatolian Greeks -- "Great schemes" : the Middle East from Lausanne to World War II -- The elimination of Asiatic influence : genocide in World War II -- "The greatest danger" : Cold War genocides -- "We razed their houses": the Anfal campaign -- Death by "resource curse" : post-Cold War genocides -- "Imagine" : genocide in southern Sudan -- Sudan liberation : genocide and response in Darfur and eastern Chad -- Denying the "other" : Al Qaeda, the Taliban, and genocidal terrorism -- "Mass extermination" in Iraq : at what stage genocide? -- "An effective remedy" : prosecutions or reparations?